What is froala-editor?
Froala Editor is a lightweight WYSIWYG HTML Editor written in JavaScript that enables rich text editing capabilities for web applications. It is designed to be easy to integrate and offers a wide range of features including text formatting, image and video embedding, and more.
What are froala-editor's main functionalities?
Text Formatting
This feature allows users to format text with options like bold, italic, underline, and more. The code sample initializes the Froala Editor with a toolbar that includes these text formatting options.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
toolbarButtons: ['bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strikeThrough', 'subscript', 'superscript']
});
Image Upload
This feature enables users to upload images directly into the editor. The code sample shows how to configure the editor to upload images to a specified URL.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
imageUploadURL: '/upload_image'
});
Video Embedding
This feature allows users to embed videos within the editor. The code sample demonstrates how to enable video embedding in the Froala Editor.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
videoUpload: true
});
Custom Toolbar
This feature allows customization of the toolbar to include only the desired buttons. The code sample shows how to initialize the editor with a custom toolbar that includes buttons for text formatting, image insertion, and video insertion.
const FroalaEditor = require('froala-editor');
new FroalaEditor('#editor', {
toolbarButtons: ['bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'insertImage', 'insertVideo']
});
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#Froala WYSIWYG Editor
A beautiful jQuery WYSIWYG text editor based on HTML5 technology. Cross browser, with mobile support, high performance and Retina Ready flat design.
Licensing
The editor can be used for free only for personal and non-profit projects under the CC NC-ND license. For commercial applications you have to purchase one of the following licenses according to your needs. You can find more about that on our website on the pricing plan page.
- Single Website - $49
- Developer - $79
- Business - $159
- OEM - $299
Useful links
Reporting issues
We use GitHub Issues as our official bug tracker. We strive to keep this a clean, maintainable and searchable record of our open and closed bugs, therefore we kindly ask you to obey some rules before reporting an issue:
- Make sure that you are using the latest version of the Froala WYSIWYG Editor. The issue that you are about to report may be already fixed with on our latest work https://github.com/froala/froala-wysiwyg/tree/master/js, so please try it before reporting.
- Always add information on what browser it applies to, and other information needed for us to debug.
- Make sure the report is accompanied by a reproducible demo.
- We are trying to fix all issues ASAP. This means a lot of work and all we are asking is for you to be polite and use appropriate language.
- DO NOT SPAM! We are reading every single issue opened. Please do not open 2 different issues for the same thing.
- For feature requests, tech support and general discussion, don't use GitHub Issues. See http://editor.froala.com/contact for the appropriate channels.